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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [290v] (585/738)
The record is made up of 1 volume (365 folios). It was created in 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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574
HAURlN and jaulan
wooded on its lower course, and it enters the Sheri‘eh 3-4
miles below the mouth of W. el-Ehreir.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
d-Aqrabdi rises on the Kefarat watershed opposite
‘ Ain et-Turab. It follows a NW. and W. course of about
10 miles, making numerous bends, and falling some 2,000 ft.
From Kefr Som, about 2 miles from its head, a brook runs in
its bed for rather more than a mile. From Rafid it forms
a wild gorge with precipitous cliff sides : in this part of its
course it is known first as W. ‘Ulleiqeh then as W. Qaleit.
The lower course is perennial from Kefr Lahiyeh, 3-4 miles
above its mouth. The bed of this
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
is rocky and full of
caves ; above Sahem, the gorge is said to be 1,000 ft. deep.
W. Sha‘ib, its chief affluent, rises E. of Samar, and comes in
S. of Sahem after a course of 4-5 miles, only the lower part
of which has perennial water. There is wooded country about
its upper valley and cultivation on its slopes ; in the bottom
lands there are tobacco plantations and olive groves. A track
runs down its bed.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Samar, rising as W. ‘Ain et-Turab by the spring of that
name, flows NW. for 11 miles, known successively by the local
names of W. el Masabb, W. el-Hamra, Nahr Shaqq el-Bared
and W. ‘Ain el-Ghazaleh, under which latter name it enters
the Sheri‘eh near ‘Araq el-Heitallyeh. It carries a perennial
brook throughout; the banks and valley slopes are steep,
but not craggy, and are partly cultivated, partly overgrown
with terebinths and storax trees.
On the right (N.) bank, the Sheri‘eh receives IF. ez-Zeyydtin,
with a perennial stream, 5f miles below the junction of W.
Ehreir. But the chief tributary on this side is the Nahr er-
Ruqqdd, which rises at the foot of Mt. Hermon, but for a long
distance is an unimportant watercourse. It has a perennial
stream from Jisr er-Ruqqad, 3-4 miles NW. of Jisr el-‘Allan,
where the road from Bab et-Tumm to Nawa and Damascus
crosses. But shortly below the bridge it falls over a perpen
dicular cliff about 80 ft. high, and thence continues in
cascades over basaltic rocks in a deep narrow gorge
30—100 yds, wide until it is joined on the left bank by the
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Admiralty handbook regarding Syria (including Palestine) 'to as far north as the River Orontes and a line Antioch-Aleppo-Meskeneh. For details of the part of Syria beyond this line reference must be made to the Handbook of Asia Minor , Vol. iv, Part 2 (C.B. 847 C).'
'Contents. Chapters:
- I. Boundaries and Physical Survey, p 9 (folio 7)
- II. Climate, p 24 (folio 14v)
- III. Minerals, Flora and Fauna, p 93 (folio 50)
- IV. Military History, p 109 (folio 58)
- V. Inhabitants, p 175 (folio 91)
- VI. Turkish Administration, p 236 (folio 121v)
- VII. Agriculture, p 252 (folio 129v)
- VIII. Industry and Trade, p 276 (folio 141v)
- IX. Currency, Weights and Measures, p 318 (folio 162v)
- X. Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 325 (folio 166)
- XI. Country East of Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 344 (folio 175v)
- XII. Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, and Damascus Plain, p 357 (folio 182)
- XIII. River Systems of Northern Syria, p 395 (folio 201)
- XIV. Judea and the Southern Desert, p 427 (folio 217)
- XV. Samaria (including Carmel), p 472 (folio 239v)
- XVI. Galilee, p 515 (folio 261)
- XVII. Haurān and Jaulān, p 556 (folio 281v)
- XVIII. 'Ajlūn and Northern Belqa, p 580 (folio 293v)
- XIX. Southern Belqa and Ardh el-Kerak, p 612 (folio 309v)
- XX. El-Jibāl and Esh-Shera, p 636 (folio 321v)
- XXI. The Ghōr (Jordan and the Dead Sea); and Wādi 'Arabah, p 645 (folio 326)
- Appendix: Conventional Spellings, p 668 (folio 337v)
- Index, p 669 (folio 338)
- Plates, p 725' [missing]
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (365 folios)
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The volume contains a contents page (folio 6) and an index (folios 338-365).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 367; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence. The volume originally contained fourteen plates showing maps, bound into the back of the volume. These are now missing; details of the plates can be found at folio 5v.
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